One of the questions about Cinema Therapy is whether there is any therapeutic value in violence. The Urban Dictionary defines gratuitous violence as violence for the sake of being violent, usually associated with low budget movies and cult videogames. It is also often without need, and often unrealistic. It seems that almost any genre of […]
Person of Interest: The Series
A high-concept show that isn’t afraid to get down and dirty, this latest exercise in paranoid worldbuilding from producer J.J. Abrams provides an addictive combination of action and future tech. Series creator Jonathan Nolan (brother of Christopher) lays out the premise at a furious clip: an eccentric tech genius (Michael Emerson) enlists a shadowy soldier-of-fortune […]
Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty is a American historical drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. Billed as “the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man,” the film is a dramatization of the United States operation that found and killed Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda. Maya (Jessica Chastain), […]
Game of Thrones: The Series
Game of Thrones, the first book in author George R.R. Martin’s sprawling fantasy saga A Song of Fire and Ice, serves as the basis for this brawny, lusty series about courtly intrigue and civil war in a sprawling fantasy kingdom. TV and fantasy veteran Sean Bean leads the massive cast as the warrior-noble Eddard Stark, […]
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